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[hell32]

i think (*i'm currently can't llok into code of animation of the model*) if methed of change animation will be overrided like setAnimation(Animation anim) and setAnimation(Animation anim, boolean mix) and than when applying new values of animation may be mix;)

[Marvin Fröhlich]

i think (*i'm currently can't llok into code of animation of the model*) if methed of change animation will be overrided like setAnimation(Animation anim) and setAnimation(Animation anim, boolean mix) and than when applying new values of animation may be mix;)

To be honest I have no Idea, what you're trying to say. But to mix animations you'll have to concatenate the components of the key frames.

Marvin

['n ddrylliog]

I think what he means is that you could do

Code:

// because girl.isChatty() == true.
girlModel.setAnimation(walk);
girlModel.setAnimation(talk, true);

And then the two animations would be "mixed", thus the data would be "concatenated", as you say. Is it hard to do ?

[Marvin Fröhlich]

Ah, ok. This was meant by mixing. Actually I don't know, if this is easy. I have never messed with it. You were the master of desaster for this topic, Amos .

Marvin

[lonesomeStranger]

Hi,

Maybe the question is in combining animations for different animation channels (TORSO, LEGS, HEAD, EYELIDS, ALL) ?

Each channel can play an animation independently from the other channels, hence it's possible to play the walk animation on the LEGS channel and the cough animation on the TORSO.

[shatterblast]

Does this mean enabling different parts of an object with a skeleton for performing separate animations?  I can understand the functions for an object with an embedded "bone chain," but I know little in regards to controlling "nested transforms" apart from loading individual animations.  I know enabling different transforms in an object as doable since a few 3D "anime" types come to mind.  I've never had the opportunity to study a procedure for it though.  I'll eventually see more Blender.

As far as bone chains in an object, the tanks in Gunslinger's game could serve as a close example.  I imagine a turret object integrated with a tank's bottom object.  Otherwise if the two really existed as one, a turret spinning in a circle might horribly twist the surfaces near the middle like the face of a person sucking on a very raw and sour lemon.

Well, maybe not a lemon.  A lime might do.  Anyway, animating tanks probably has a similar concept for bone chains.

[lonesomeStranger]

Does this mean enabling different parts of an object with a skeleton for performing separate animations?

Yes. One more quote:

In Doom 3 ... different animation can be playing on each animation chanel simultaneously. This avoids the quake 2 "running while firing" problem, as well as the quake 3 "my model is in pieces" problem. There is one single mesh, but each animation affects a different set of bones. All of this is handled in Anim_Blend. It also handles blending between two completely different animations (for example when you switch between weapons).

[shatterblast]

Right, I've seen skeleton animations used many times in shooting games and others.  I guess I have a problem with the proprietary 3DS format since I can't export the entire data of an object into some other software yet.  I would much rather animate an object away from the software its designed for.  I lose data regardless of how I export from 3D Studio Max.  I have hopes for Collada in the future perhaps for the purpose of exporting into other packages.  Come to think of it, I should probably go ask in one of the 3D artist forums.